The complete Guitar Hero 5 track list

by Joystiq Staff on Jul 8th 2009 1:00PM

Amidst one of our furious brianstorm sessions, the staff at Joystiq concurred that site readers -- who never miss a beat -- would undoubtedly be hungry like the wolf for a full Guitar Hero 5 track list. Under pressure, we toiled six days a week and pulled together previously announced artists and trusted sources to obtain the complete (though not officially confirmed) set of tracks, soon to be transformed into rapidly approaching note charts. Why bother?

Because we wanted to see smiles on all the pretty faces. And ... we're only happy when it rains. Smells like teen spirit is a song that is in this game.

Update: This track list is official now.

3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite"
A Perfect Circle - "Judith"
AFI - "Medicate"
Arctic Monkeys - "Brianstorm"
Attack! Attack! UK - "You and Me"
Band Of Horses - "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands"
Beastie Boys - "Gratitude"
Beck - "Gamma Ray"
Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself"
Billy Squier - "Lonely is the Night"
Blink-182 - "The Rock Show"
Blur - "Song 2"
Bob Dylan - "All Along the Watchtower"
Bon Jovi - "You Give Love A Bad Name"
Brand New - "Sowing Season"
Bush - "Comedown"
Children Of Bodom - "Done With Everything, Die For Nothing"
Coldplay - "In My Place"
Darker My Love - "Blue Day"
Darkest Hour - "Demon(s)"
David Bowie - "Fame"
Deep Purple - "Woman From Tokyo ('99 Remix)"
Dire Straits - "Sultans of Swing"
Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf"
Eagles Of Death Metal - "Wannabe in L.A."
Elliott Smith - "L.A."
Elton John - "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"
Face To Face - "Disconnected"
Garbage - "Only Happy When It Rains"
Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc."
Gov't Mule - "Streamline Woman"
Grand Funk Railroad - "We're an American Band"
Iggy Pop - "Lust For Life"
Iron Maiden - "2 Minutes to Midnight"
Jeff Beck - "Scatterbrain"
Jimmy Eat World - "Bleed American"
John Mellencamp - "Hurts So Good"
Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire"
Kaiser Chiefs - "Never Miss a Beat"
King Crimson - "21st Century Schizoid Man"
Kings Of Leon - "Sex on Fire"
Kiss - "Shout it Out Loud"
Love and Rockets - "Mirror People"
Megadeth - "Sweating Bullets"
Mötley Crüe - "Looks That Kill"
Muse - "Plug in Baby"
My Morning Jacket - "One Big Holiday"
Nirvana - "Lithium"
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
No Doubt - "Ex-Girlfriend"
Peter Frampton - "Do You Feel Like We Do (Live)"
Public Enemy Featuring Zakk Wylde - "Bring the Noise 20xx"
Queen & David Bowie - "Under Pressure"
Queens Of The Stone Age - "Make it With Chu"
Rammstein - "Du Hast"
Rose Hill Drive - "Sneak Out"
Rush - "The Spirit of Radio (Live, 2008)"
Santana - "No One To Depend On (Live)"
Scars On Broadway - "They Say"
Screaming Trees - "Nearly Lost You"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"
Sonic Youth - "Incinerate"
Spacehog - "In the Meantime"
Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"
Sublime - "What I Got"
Sunny Day Real Estate - "Seven"
T. Rex - "20th Century Boy"
The Bronx - "Six Days a Week"
The Derek Trucks Band - "Younk Funk"
The Duke Spirit - "Send a Little Love Token"
The Killers - "All the Pretty Faces"
The Police - "So Lonely"
The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes"
The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil"
The Sword - "Maiden, Mother & Crone"
The White Stripes - "Blue Orchid"
Thin Lizzy - "Jailbreak"
Thrice - "Deadbolt"
Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down a Dream"
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American Girl"
TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
Weezer - "Why Bother?"
Wild Cherry - "Play That Funky Music"
Wolfmother - "Back Round"

Artists to be featured as characters:

Matt Bellamy (Muse)
Johnny Cash
Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Shirley Manson (Garbage)

Tags: activision, guitar-hero, guitar-hero-5, Microsoft, Nintendo, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (289)

I don't want to buy this, but if it's true that MMJ is in this game I will have to. Dammit...

Really?
You would buy the whole game just to tap away to a single song you like? Why don't you spend that money on a concert ticket or something?

I'll do that too. Gotta support the local talent.

and on top of that, you'd buy the entire game for a My Morning Jacket song?! I could see Queen or Elton John or Kings of Leon but My Morning Jacket? Why not pick a band that's actually, ya know, good?

Pissing out the window, and shitting out the window, are TWO different things!

Hey I have a piece of toast that looks like the lead singer to MMJ, would you like that too? It's $60 and I will send $.10 to the band, which is probably more than they'll make if you buy this 1 game.

Toast? I'll take 8!

You would drop $60 on a game for one song by one band? You're a fool and reason why guitar hero continues to put up the numbers it does.

Muwahahah! None of you can stop me from wasting my money on mediocre games that I will grow tired of in less than a week! None of you!

One big holiday would be awesome to play, but I'd rather wait for several price drops till it is around $20 and then buy it.

MMJ FTW!

Thanks alot Damian. Now I won't get anything done this afternoon because I'm gonna be watching Tourettes Guy videos.

You know what they say: All toasters toast toast!

If any of you morons had actually heard the song One Big Holiday by MMJ, you would never had made those comments.

Tyler, you lost credibility there by listing Kings of Leon with Elton John and Queen. Sex on Fire was catching the first couple times it was played on the radio, but now I immediately switch the station if KoL is on.

Regarding the game though, since switching to RB, I've had a hard time justifying buying a GH game. I dunno, maybe it's worth a rent or something.

If they included "Highly Suspicious" by MMJ, then I would absolutely say it would be worth the price for just that one song. Look it up people.

About 30 songs I want to play. Sounds like a rental.

i know they were talking about enabling all the songs from the other games on it if thats the case and it works something like rock band 2s is meant to ill probably pick it up

since rock band 2 is yet to release in aus and its not sumthing i see any merit in importing rb has got no cred over here

sweet!

3 doors down...yes! finally...

all along the watch tower...been wanting this since GH3...

some other great tracks too

Don't worry dude, I'm doing it for the Gorillaz song. Because they rock (A lot more than My Morning Jacket, but hey, different strokes and all that.)

To Tyler... My Morning Jacket is significantly more talented than the insanely over-hyped Kings of Leon--just sayin'.

It is so fashionable these days to be anti-"big name games". "Don't buy the popular games" the dissenters say. My question is why? Why does it make a rat's ass of a difference what someone spends their hard earned money on, especially if it brings entertainment to their lives. "Oh wait, this game is published by Activision... can't buy it." "Oh, this game should be great... oh wait... EA, shit." Every game should be judged on its own merits. It all boils down to opinion. And we all know that opinions are like assholes. We all have them... yours is just full of shit.

if i was gonna buy a game 4 a few songs id buy it for sex on fire and in my place

1 big giant "Meh"

ditto.

i give one big "meh" to the whole plastic instrument genre.

I'm more of a RockBand fan but this set list looks to be the best of any rhythm game yet. Just different tastes in music I guess.

eh, not that good of a list

i agree with david. this might just be one of the best lists yet. sultans of swing? smells like teen spirit? feel good inc.? so many other awesome songs?

I second your comment.

There's a few great ones in there, then the rest is just 'meh.' This is why I appreciate Rock Band. Instead of releasing tons of discs which I'd have to buy to find the few golden songs I love, they release tons of DLC so I can individually purchase the good ones.

I mean, I bought Guitar Hero Greatest Hits becuase Rock band wont be getting songs like "I Wanna ROCK", "I Love Rock and Roll" or "Smoke on the Water" any time soon.

All I gotta say is that they better have all songs unlocked from the begining, I don't want to start playing and come to an entire "level" devoted to Tool shit ever again.

The songs are all unlocked in quickplay from the minute you boot up the game. They started this in Metallica and Beenox carried it on in Smash Hits. Neversoft has confirmed it happening in GH5, as well.

Wolfmother wins Meh.

If Kurt was alive he would never agree to be on a game. Guess David and Courtney couldn`t care less if this rumor is true

I agree with that. Kurt wouldn't have been for this from what I understand... I thought Courtney Love though was the one who had rights to his likeness or something... Or at least his part of Nirvana.

I don't know how I feel about two classics like them being in this game without knowing what they would think of it. Johnny Cash really wanted to show in his later years how his career drove him into the ground, like the movie about his life, and why he sang the NIN song Hurt with so much emotion.

Examples of people who if they were in a game now would be Michael Jackson, he'd be all over it if he was alive, or even say Ozzy Osbourne if he was dead... I know he'd be all for it even after death. There's alot of musicians that if they were dead, would still want their likeness plastered in games and memorabilia of all kinds.

Or you could say Ozzy Osborne if he even knows what the heck a video game is. Or what a plastic guitar is. Or who he is.

Ozzy Osbourne is IN a video game

I agree with aggrazel Ozzy would be yelling "Sharon, how do you work this fucking thing!"

Am I the only one that is actually tired of Rock Band/Guitar Hero now?

My family/friends and I play it just about weekly. Rock Band having good DLC and lots of us helps out a lot. We get 1 or 2 new songs a week.

Ditto. Me and the Fiancee play it just about every other day. She likes to sing :)

I am from time to time when it's just me. Invite the lasses over though and I find myself excited when it's my turn to pick a song.

I am from time to time when it's just me. Invite the masses over though and I find myself excited when it's my turn to pick a song.

i still play it especially at parties. for some reason it doesn't get old especially when paired with liquor.

it is more likely that you aren't the only one. there's at least one more who feels the same.

Sitting alone and playing Guitar Hero is not whats its really meant for. Yeah its good the first couple of times you play the songs just to get the hang of it but the real fun is when you have a group of 3-4 people just having fun and messing around. PS Girls love this shit and for all you nerds out there that havent touch vagina, get GH, get some beers (maybe some weed if that floats yer boat), invite some chicks over, and Get Down with yo bad self. Also fun as a family game, I play with my g/f, daughter, sister, brother, mom, stepdad all the time. Its like Karaoke on steroids and definitely cooler without all the drunky sleazy bar people, and look how long that shit's been around. Guitar Hero FTW!!!! Haha jk

Yes

Eh, not bad I suppose but...

A PERFECT CIRCLE!

And it's Judith. Fucking JUDITH! I can't remember the last time I even heard that song!

Its not like you killed someone
its not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
praise the one who left you broken down and paralyzed
he did it all for yoooo-hooooooo

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